Founded in 1994, the Perceptual Science Group of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT does research in human visual perception, machine vision, image processing, and human-computer interaction.
Both the Adelson Lab and the Rosenholtz Lab are located in Building 46.
Research areas are as follows:
- visual search
- visual clutter
- texture perception
- user interface design and information visualization
- visual system as statistician
- material perception
- brightness and transparency
- image statistics
- image enhancement
- image data compression
- image database indexing
- motion analysis
- perceptual similarity
- gesture recognition
- event perception
- object recognition
Explore the Gallery and the individual home pages of Perceptual Science Group members to learn more about these topics.